The imaginary line supporting the bottom serifs of capitals and lowercase.

What is the base line?

100

The distance between lines of type.

What is leading?

100

The inventor of the printing press.

Who is Gutenberg?

100

Letterforms originating among the humanists of the Italian Renaissance. They show the clear trace of a broad-nib pen held by a right-handed scribe.

What are Humanist letterforms?

100

A selection of characters of one size and design of type.

What is font?

200

The stem of a lowercase letter projecting below the x-height.

What is the descender line?

200

A typeface measure equal to 12 points or 1/6 of an inch.

What is a pica?

200

This typeface was designed by Paul Renner.

What is Futura?

200

Helvetica, Futura and Myriad are members of this classification.

What is Sans Serif?

200

To adjust the length of the line so that it is flush left and right on the measure.

What is justify?

300

The distance between the baseline and the midline of an alphabet, which is normally the approximate height of the unextended lowercase letters - a, c, e, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z - and of the torso of b, d, h, k, p, q, y.

What is the x-height?

300

The act of adjusting spacing between letters

What is kerning?

300

He was a type designer from the 1700s

Who was Bodoni?

300

Bodoni is always put in this classification.

What is modern?

300

The last line of a paragraph left at the top of a page

What is a widow?

400

The openings of letters such as C, c, S, s, a and e.

What is aperture?

400

The adjustment of the letterspacing and wordspacing by the same amount.

What is tracking?

400

He invented the first known movable type system out of ceramic.

Who was Bi Sheng?

400

Baskerville is often used as an example of this classification.

What is transitional?

400

The ability to easily distinguish letterforms from one another

What legibility of type?

500

We measure this by drawing an invisible line through the thin strokes of letter “o”.

What is stress?

500

The standard length of the line; i.e., column width or width of the overall typeblock, usually measured in picas.

What is measure?

500

He was the first independent typefounder and the first to make type available to printers at an affordable price.